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Greymouth Star
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 5
PICTURE: Reuters
A policeman watches as a bus, destroyed in an earlier explosion, is towed away in Volgograd.
Russia on alert
after bombs kill 31
Moscow
At least 14 people were
killed when a suicide bomber
blew himself up on a packed
trolleybus in Volgograd, raising
new concerns about security at
the Sochi Olympics a day after
a deadly attack on the southern
Russian city's train station.
President Vladimir Putin
ordered stepped-up security
across the country after the
trolleybus bombing at the peak
of the morning rush yesterday
(local time) and Sunday's suicide
attack blamed on a suspected
female suicide bomber which
claimed 17 lives.
e attacks on Volgograd,
which until this year had no
record of recent unrest, raised
alarm about whether the ongoing
anti-Kremlin insurgency in the
Northern Caucasus could a ect
the Sochi Winter Games which
open on February 7.
e force of yesterday's blast
destroyed the number 15A
trolleybus, which was packed
with early morning commuters
and was turned into a tangle of
wreckage with only its roof and
front remaining.
Health ministry spokesman
Oleg Salagai told Russian State
television that 14 people were
killed and 28 wounded.
Russian investigators have
opened a criminal probe into a
suspected act of terror as well as
the illegal carrying of weapons,
the Investigative Committee
said.
" e explosives were detonated
by a male suicide bomber,
fragments of whose body have
been found and taken for genetic
analysis to establish his identity,"
spokesman Vladimir Markin
said.
He said 4kg of TNT equivalent
had been used and noted that the
explosives were identical to those
used in Sunday's railway station
bombing.
" is con rms the theory
that the two attacks are linked.
It is possible that they were
prepared in the same place," he
added.
Putin ordered security stepped
up across Russia, with a special
regime to be imposed in
Volgograd, which lies 690km
north-east of the Black Sea
resort of Sochi.
Federal Security Service (FSB)
chief Alexander Bortnikov ew
to Volgograd and asked citizens
to be understanding about the
extra security that may involve
spot checks.
"It is a necessary measure," he
said.
Russia is already preparing to
impose a "limited access" security
cordon around Sochi from
January 7, which will check all
tra c and ban all non-resident
cars from a wide area around the
city.
e head of the Russian
Olympic Committee, Alexander
Zhukov, said that there was no
need for extra security measures
in Sochi as "everything that is
necessary has already been done,"
Itar-Tass reported.
e search for the perpetrators
is expected to focus on Russia's
largely Muslim North Caucasus
region where Islamist militants
have for years been ghting the
Russian security forces.
Doku Umarov, the leader of
militants seeking to impose
an Islamist state throughout
Russia's North Caucasus, has
ordered rebels to target civilians
outside the region and disrupt
the Games.
Volgograd, known as Stalingrad
in the Soviet era, had already
been attacked on October 21 by a
female suicide bomber with links
to Islamists who killed six people
on a crowded bus.
Militant strikes have become
part of daily life in the mainly
Muslim North Caucasus. But
the Volgograd blasts will be
a particular concern to the
authorities as the bomber struck
a city of more than one million
people in the Russian heartland.
Doku Umarov, the leader of
militants seeking to impose
an Islamist state throughout
Russia's North Caucasus, has
ordered rebels to target civilians
outside the region and disrupt
the Games.
Sunday's blast in Volgograd
was the deadliest in Russia since
a suicide bombing at Moscow 's
Domodedovo airport killed 37
people in January 2011.
Investigators said the suicide
bomber --- a woman --- set o
her charge after being stopped
by a police o cer at the metal
detectors of the central entrance
to the station when it was
packed with people travelling to
celebrate the New Year.
Female suicide bombers are
often referred to in Russia as
"black widows" --- women who
seek to avenge the deaths of
their family members in the
ghting by targeting Russian
civilians.
Female suicide bombers have
repeatedly struck Russian targets
during Putin's 14-year rule,
including twin attacks that killed
more than 90 people on airliners
in 2004. --- AFP
Perth
Tropical cyclone Christine
is battering the Pilbara coast,
forcing people to take shelter as
it brings strong winds, heavy rain
and dangerous storm tides.
e category three storm
crossed the coast between Whim
Creek and Roebourne overnight,
with wind gusts of 200kph
expected near its centre.
e Bureau of Meteorology
said at 1am (WST) Christine
was estimated to be 150km west-
south-west of Port Hedland
and 50km east-south-east of
Karratha and moving south-west
at 16kph.
It is expected to take a more
southerly track during today.
Residents in the a ected areas
of the Pilbara have been told
to take shelter while the storm
moves over.
A red alert is in place for people
in or near the coastal areas
between De Grey and Mardie
and extending inland to Tom
Price and Paraburdoo.
is includes Port Hedland,
South Hedland, Whim Creek,
Roebourne, Point Samson,
Wickham, Karratha
and
Dampier.
" ere is a threat to lives and
homes,"DFES said in a statement
today. "You are in danger and
need to act immediately."
It urged residents in a ected
areas to "get ready to move to
the strongest, safest part of your
house".
Widespread heavy rainfall is
expected near the cyclone track
and ood warnings have been
issued for the Pilbara.
Destructive winds with gusts
in excess of 135kph are battering
the Karratha area and are
expected to extend well inland
during the day.
People in Tom Price can expect
destructive wind gusts to start
about 8am (WST).
Gales with gusts to 120kph are
occurring between De Grey and
Mardie and will extend to the
inland Pilbara.
People on the coast between
De Grey and Wickham
including Port Hedland have
been warned of the potential for
a very dangerous storm tide.
--- AAP
Cyclone batters WA's Pilbara coast
Headless man
still a mystery
Brisbane
Police have posted a video on You Tube
as they renew appeals to identify the
charred torso of a man found in central
Queensland three months ago.
e headless remains, with arms
severed at the elbows and nothing
remaining below the rib cage, were found
on the side of a road at Cedar Pocket,
near Gympie, on September 19.
Detectives want to speak to a woman
aged 30 to 50 spotted at the scene
standing beside an orange, gold or
bronze hatchback.
ey say the male victim was Caucasian,
aged between 25 and 50 and was possibly
on medication for high blood pressure.
Police are appealing for anyone who
has not heard from a family member or
friend who would have normally made
contact over Christmas.
"If you'd normally have someone who'd
contact you over Christmas or you
haven't heard (from) since September
and you think that's out of character,
please contact us," Detective Inspector
Damien Hansen told reporters late
yesterday.
e video published on You Tube is
of a mannequin, rotated in front of the
camera to show the positions of wounds
on the man's shoulders and back.
Drugs found in the man's system
include irbesartan, used to treat high
blood pressure, and quinine, which treats
cramps, restless leg syndrome and malaria.
Hansen said someone had gone to great
lengths to conceal the man's identity, but
said police were still following a number
of leads from members of the public.
--- AAP
London
Prince William will become a full-time
student of agricultural management for 10
weeks as he forges a life after the military.
William will learn about the issues facing
rural communities and the farming industry in
Britain during the course, which begins next
week at the prestigious Cambridge University.
e course will help the 31-year-old prince in
his future role running the Duchy of Cornwall,
a portfolio of land, property and investments
he will inherit when his father, Prince Charles,
becomes king.
A royal spokesman said William was "very
much looking for ward to it".
William, who is second in line to the throne,
gave up his operational career with the Royal
Air Force in September after completing a
three-year stint as a search and rescue helicopter
pilot.
He will follow a course run by the Cambridge
Programme for Sustainability Leadership
(CPSL), an institution within Cambridge
University's School of Technology. His father is
the school's patron.
e Duke will have 18 to 20 hours of lectures,
seminars and meetings a week.
He is expected to live in Cambridge part of
the time during his studies, but will still carry
out royal engagements over the coming months.
e royal spokesman said the "programme of
seminars, lectures and meetings will draw on the
strengths of academics across the university".
e course will end in mid-March, before
Williams heads to Australia and New Zealand
with his wife Kate for a visit in April. e
couple's son, Prince George, is expected to join
them. --- AFP
Brisbane
A three-year-old girl has su ered second-
degree burns from a piece of playground
equipment in central Queensland.
Sienna Maunders is still in pain and with
bandaged feet after being burnt at the Tannum
Sands playground, near Gladstone, on Saturday
morning.
"She ran across the sand 10m to 12m, not even
that, and hopped up on to one of the pieces of
equipment," her father, Tony Maunders, told
AAP.
"She was only on there for about 10 seconds
and the hot plastic hurt her feet.
"I rang council straight away while my wife,
Cindy, took our daughter o to the lifeguards
to get some help.
"She screamed for an hour and a half until she
got to the hospital."
Doctors said Sienna had second-degree burns
on the soles of her feet, Maunders said.
He said his daughter was still in considerable
pain.
Maunders said all children's playgrounds in
Queensland should be shaded and parents
should be made aware of the dangers of play
equipment on hot days.
"It's pretty atrocious," he said.
" is playground has sand, not bark, so most
of the kids don't want to wear shoes."
Gladstone Mayor Gail Sellers said the council
would investigate once its sta returned to work,
and may decide to erect shades at the Tannum
Sands playground.
" ere is no legislative requirement that
I'm aware of, but we've been rolling them
(playground shade covers) out as a matter of
policy," she said. --- AAP
Prince goes back to college
Tot burned at playground
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